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Oral history interview with Lyman T. Johnson, conducted on March 24, 1982 by Dwayne Cox. Mr. Johnson discusses his tenure on the Louisville/Jefferson County board of education in the late 1970s. He discusses the challenges of merging the city and...

Portion of elevated railroad tracks with city buildings in the background. A train is on the inside set of tracks on the right approaching the section where the tracks intersect with tracks on the left. Title: 2755. Curve on the Elevated Railroad...

Secretary of War William Howard Taft (third from left), President Theodore Roosevelt's representative at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri (and his successor as U.S. President, in 1909), exchanges greetings with local dignitaries: Thomas H....

Catalog for Kentucky University medical department, 1901-1902. Includes list of board of curators and faculty, program information, including curriculum and admission requirements, currently enrolled students for 1900, and a textbook list. Printed...

Catalog for Kentucky University. Includes university history, board of curators, board of trustees, administrators and faculty, university information, details on colleges, current students, graduation candidates for June 1902, and index. Medical...

Catalog for Kentucky University Medical Department 1904-1905. Includes board of curators, hospital staff, faculty, program information, students for 1903-1904, graduates for 1904, and textbooks. Cover includes seal with the text Cond Sigillum ...

Catalog for Kentucky University medical Department 1906. Includes lists of Kentucky University curators and faculty, program information, a list of graduates from 1904-1905 session, and course textbooks. Cover includes seal with the text Cond...

Catalog for Kentucky University Medical Department 1903-1904. Includes board of curators, hospital staff, faculty, program information, students for the 1903 session, graduates for 1903, and textbooks. Cover includes seal with the text Cond...

Catalog for Kentucky University Medical Department 1907. Includes lists of Kentucky University curators and faculty, program and course information, a list of graduates from July 1906, and course textbooks. Cover includes seal with the text Cond...

Full-length portrait of magician Alexander Herrmann (billed as Hermann III, "the only successor to Herrmann the Great") in a magician's costume. He stands with arms folded, wearing a skullcap, robes, mustache, and goatee. Location of...

Double portrait of magician Alexander Herrmann (billed as Hermann III, "the only successor to Herrmann the Great"). Herrmann is seated before a poster of himself. In both images, he is wearing a tuxedo with white bow tie, his curly hair...

Autographed portrait of Alexander Herrmann (billed as Hermann III, "the only successor to Herrmann the Great") wearing a middle part, thick mustache and goatee, and suit jacket and tie. Herrmann III performed at Macauley's Theatre four...

Portrait of John L. Dorsey of Henderson, Kentucky, wearing his hair combed to the side, a suit and tie. Crop marks frame his face and shoulders; the bottom corner is somewhat faded. Stamped on back of image: January 12, 1931. Handwritten on back:...

“Detail from a bronze equestrian statue of the emperor Domitian, which was raised from the sea floor near Miseno. After the emperor’s violent death and the subsequent declaration of a damnatio memoriae – the abolition of his memory – the...

"The son and successor of Artaxerxes, Shapur I (r. 241-272), succeeded in further extending Sasanian territory. He also erected a great palace at Ctesiphon, the capital his father had established near modern Baghdad in Iraq. The central...

Dean's administrative office at University of Louisville School of Dentistry. A woman sits in the back of the room at a typewriter. Another woman sits at a typewriter in the front of the room. Filing cabinets are on the walls. On back of...